The Republican in Congress helped a migrant teenager she previously knew get released from federal custody. Scores of migrants are in similar situations with no clear exit.

Families of Colombians imprisoned in Venezuela gathered at a Colombia-Venezuela bridge hoping to appeal for the release of their relatives during a meeting that never happened.

Before the directive, ICE lawyers filed over 2,000 motions in Washington asking that asylum-seekers be sent to so-called third countries. Many were granted.